“We're living in an age in which everything is allowed, and democracy is being devoured and destroyed by that limitless freedom.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
All ideas about identity, of course, fit perfectly into the social media wonderland we live in. They seem to really connect. There's… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it's a producer or studio falling… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
This is important. Money on its most basic level is a hard fact - you either have it or you don't. But… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action… — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of Once upon a time shapes all… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
With a novel, you have the reader with you a lot longer, and you owe him a lot more. Obviously you have… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“I‘ve always agreed with the view that — with science fiction — its predictive powers were the least important or least relevant… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“we read fiction to satisfy a more basic need—to imagine our way into other lives, to explore characters and situations that tell… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
“Aging and the prospect of dying by no means enhance the attractiveness of fictitious comforts to come in paradise, or the veracity… — Jeffrey Tayler Copy Share Image
Not the least of the hardships to which the dying are subject is the visitation of their loved ones. The poor darlings,… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If you're writing fiction, you're dealing with characters who, themselves, will have heartfelt sentiments but who, themselves, live in this culture right… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
“I can’t do more than this. Don’t ask me. If you ask, I’ll try and I’ll fail. You’ll end up hating me.… — J. Rose Black Copy Share Image
You kind of worry for the characters in a way that you don't normally in sci-fi, because sci-fi tends to be about… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
The box jellyfish takes you into an area of what I'd call science fiction. You feel like you've been dipped in hot… — Diana Nyad Copy Share Image
I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to… — Nick Earls Copy Share Image
“I told you; I am Arianna, the Siren, your Guardian, and how is a Guardian supposed to do her job if she… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
When I was fifteen, my father gave me a first edition copy of Ray Bradbury's magnificent work, 'The Martian Chronicles.' I had… — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I don't always want to read serious fiction. But when I read fiction that's not serious, I don't want to read brain… — Dorothea Benton Frank Copy Share Image
What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable, and that, though it is clearly an absolute fiction,… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
“I write science fiction because that is what publishers call my books. Left to myself, I should call them novels.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Genre fiction, as Terry Pratchett has pointed out, is a stew. You take stuff out of the pot, you put stuff back.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
My job, in general, is nonfiction, so writing fiction was liberating. If you can't find the answer to something, you just make… — Jake Tapper Copy Share Image
“I actually felt awed by the remote possibilities of the person you liked ever liking you back a corresponding amount.” — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
“Will this ever be over?" "In time. When the Thieves find something else worth stealing." "And then what?" "They'll tell the Stolen… — Jabari Asim Copy Share Image
If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers.… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Biographies never feel as real as the best fiction. There is such a discontinuity between the narrative and the material it comes… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
I'm not sure what to call 'Lego Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary.' Nonfiction? Movie/toy fiction? But it is any Lego/'Star Wars' kid's… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
“What an interesting choice of words. “Not real, and never were.” Could there be any more appropriate literature for men of our… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
Rod Clark has one of the most unique voices I have ever encountered. I still quote some of his political insights years… — Kristine Kathryn Rusch Copy Share Image
In American fiction, belief is like that. Belief as upbringing, belief as social fact, belief as a species of American weirdness: our… — Paul Elie Copy Share Image
“When we as writers take our fears, beliefs, imaginations, and research and offer them up for the Lord to use, we are… — Amy Wallace Copy Share Image
